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Inspira Labs

A platform designed to encourage students to share scientific learnings and innovation with the broader community.

Cognitive Wellness Monitor

For seniors and their caregivers and families

Type: iOS App

Innovator: Lucas Lum
Description: A cognitive wellness monitoring app with playful, science backed cognitive games and tasks.
Motivation: Provide an accessible, non-invasive and engaging tool for seniors in our community to stay on top of their cognitive wellness.

Download: Coming Soon!

Cognitive Skills Checked:

For students and young adolescents interested in brain games

Type: iOS App

Innovator: Lucas Lum
Description: An AI-powered vocabulary learning iPhone app designed to help students build and retain vocabulary words "on-the-go" through active generative learning, real-time feedback and daily stats tracking, all without the test prep price tag.

Cognitive Skills Trained:

Type: Web App

Innovator: Lucas Lum
Description: Play the game of Bughouse with N different players... simultaneously!

URL: Coming Soon!

Cognitive Skills Trained:

- Strategic thinking
- Working memory
- Visual-spatial reasoning
- Processing speed / Reaction time
- Task switching

Type: Java App

Innovator: Lucas Lum
Description: TetrisMP is a cooperative game where players clear lines on their own boards, but clearing lines sends additional blocks to opponents, turning the classic puzzle into a strategic battle.

Cognitive Skills Trained:

Type: Java App

Innovator: Lucas Lum
Description: SnakeMP is a competitive game where players control growing snakes on a shared grid, eat food to get bigger, and strategically influence opponents’ movement to make them crash into walls and get eliminated.

Cognitive Skills Trained:

For anyone interested in student-led scientific research

Type: Prototype

Scientist: Saria Lum, Riya Chatterjee
Title: Beneath the Tide: Unleashing the Power of Calcium Ions and Seaweed to Create Food-Safe Biofabric
Mentor: Ms. Cathy Hsieh, Ms. Kathy Peng @ The Harker School

Showcase: Harker Symposium (Video)

Type: Publication

Patel, A., Lum L., Iyer, N., Rollins, K. (2025) “Simulating the Effect of Single vs. Cocktail Antibiotic Treatments on the Normal Flora in the Human Gut Microbiome.” Journal of Emerging Investigators. Copy Editing.
Researcher: Lucas Lum, Arjun Patel, Nethra Iyer
Mentor: Dr. Kirstin Rollins, PhD

Showcase: UCSB Summer Symposium (Slides)

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